On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Ray Saintonge wrote:
Geoff Burling wrote:
Well, I've been trying to remedy that with at
least the entries concerning
cites in the state of Oregon. (I'd say about 30-40% of those contain
more than just census material; the latest I've worked on was [[Jacksonville,
Oregon]], which now has details of an archeological excavation of the
now-gone Chinatown of this city.
Don't forget Fossil, Oregon which is the only place that I know of where
the local authorities actually encourage visitors to dig in its fossil beds.
Well, I'm going to need to take a little time to verify that. IIRC, the
nearest fossil beds are U.S. National Monuments.
And I could always start cribbing material from
this book a friend gave me
several years ago: _Mysterious Places of the West_ by Salvatore M. Trento.
(I think of it as that book where the author never missed an excuse to
include one of his female "Student researchers" in his pictures. ;-) That
would broaden the scope of a few articles.
Another good source of local things to write about is the AAA Tourbooks.
I've actually been using their magazine _Via_ to good effect. Not so much
as a source of information, but to remind myself of details to include in
Wikipedia, & verifying details that I tend to get wrong (e.g., misremembering
dates & places).
One of these days I'm gonna have to leave the early history of Christianity
alone long enough to write proper articles on Champoeg (where local
government for the Orgon Territories started, & the first state park),
& Neakahnie Mountain (where a legendary treasure is said to be buried,
but the curious carvings have been more plausibly explained as the work
of Sir Frnacis Drake).
And then there's the article on Wanker's Corner I'm sure the non-USonians
would enjoy reading. (The tavern there was quite popular with the Australian
tourists.)
Geoff